Nadine Botha works with research, writing, publishing, and exhibition making to explore how invisible social, political, legal, economic, and cultural systems design our objects, bodies, technology, homes, cities, and experiences.

The Politics of Shit is a self-initiated artistic research project that emerged from her Design Academy Eindhoven cum laude Master’s thesis project, which was also recognised with the Gijs Bakker Award for best project. Exploring the politics of the portable flush toilet in Cape Town’s ongoing toilet wars, the Politics of Shit is now expanding into film, academia, and media.

Other roles include assistant curator of the 4th Istanbul Design Biennale in 2018, editor-at-large of DAMN magazine, and tutor at Design Academy Eindhoven. She is also a co-founder of the Dutch Institute of Food and Design, and founder of deSIGNIFY design, media, and art consultancy.